Searching for international characters

topcatxx · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-09, 06:46

Does anyone know if there is a way to consider international characters as english characters when searching. For example, my database will contain European names containing charaters such as ů and ú. I would like to be able to search for "u" and for the results to find all three of these characters.

Is there an option or setting that can enable this or maybe a way of doing it with stored procedures etc or will I need to achieve this through php in my app.

Any help/advice with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Tony

healdem · #2 (**permalink**) 12-11-09, 12:25

not too sure how you would express that in SQL short of an "IN" sub clause or multiple OR sub clause

another alternative may be to go down thge route of something like a SOUNDEX algolrhythm or possibley double phenome (least aways I think its double phenome.. its double something, somehtign that Izzy Rider on the Access forums uses with success for French/German/Swiss names

r937 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-11-09, 14:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by topcatxx

Any help/advice with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

why not run a few tests?

Code:

CREATE TABLE t57
( foo VARCHAR(99)
);
INSERT INTO t57 VALUES
 ( 'voila' ), ( 'vwalah' ), ( 'voil&#224;' )
;
SELECT 'test1', foo FROM t57 WHERE foo LIKE '&#37;a%'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'test2', foo FROM t57 WHERE foo LIKE BINARY '%a%'
;

lemme know what you gots from that

for more information, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...nsitivity.html

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